19 Feb
2020
19 Feb
'20
8:43 a.m.
On 2/18/20 5:18 AM, Dave Phillips wrote:
On 2/17/20 10:41 AM, Dave Phillips wrote:
But you play one on TV! ;)
Greetings !
After many (too many ?) years using Fedora 23 I decided/admitted a
system upgrade was long overdue. I chose Ubuntu 18.04 simply because I
recently installed it on a Toshiba Satellite laptop - a fun story
itself - and am satisfied with the results, especially after
installing some Ubuntu Studio components. Anyway, that machine is now
a smooth-running gun, so I figured, "Why not put Ubuntu on the desktop
iron ?". And so begins the tale...
I may have struck a nerve.
Addressing certain points:
1. Nope, I'm not a normal user. According to some, I'm not even a normal
person. 2. Admittedly, the actual use of a Linux system - or
any other - isn't
necessarily problematic so long as the user is in fact simply running
programs, without concern for system configuration and administration.
Yes, my 10-year old grandson also "uses" my Linux machines, which is to
say that he knows how to start Minecraft and run a browser.
My daughter started using computers when she was 2. She's now 35. Don't
ask her to fix anything on any kind of computer - she's an artist! She
married a geeky IT guy, so he takes care of their computers.
3. My tale had really only one problem with Linux,
i.e. the
creation/configuration of the installation media, and that problem was
due to a motherboard issue with the media creation software. Using
different (more up to date?) software resolved that issue.
I get Unetbootin from their site. But my new laptop has a 4K display and
the Unetbootin GUI is so tiny as be nearly unusable. Thanks for the
reminder about using dd.
I think one thing Unetbootin can do is convert a CDROM-only ISO into a
bootable USB. Maybe that's what throws some motherboards? But I've used
it on about 13 different motherboards here (including 5 or 6 different
laptops) without any problems. One of the laptops was even a Toshiba.
There was time when Toshibas were recommended as good Linux machines
because their boards were "bog standard" with nothing exotic about them.
Don't know if that's still true or not. I went with Dell XPS because
Dell has support for Linux on them.
I'm still working on a few minor problems with
Ubuntu, nothing serious.
I think the audio configuration can be improved a bit, but performance
is certainly adequate now.
Best regards to all, thanks for all the replies.
And thank you for your musics!
--
David W. Jones
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